Word: popular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Labor Party who received the mild-looking lawyer into their ranks in 1929 could not suspect what a political hellion he would turn out to be. His militant leftism reached a climax when, in the years 1937-39, he tried to ally Laborites with Communists in a Popular Front. The Labor Party booted...
...closest friend and adviser is 46-year-old George Strauss, tall and swarthy Minister of Supply. Like Cripps, he is an upper-class leftist. Son of a wealthy metal merchant, Strauss was one of the faithful few who were expelled from the Labor-Party along with Cripps over the Popular Front issue...
...Enemy of the People" deals with the root problem of democracy: are the common people, the "popular majority," competent to rule, or should the government be entrusted to the superior few, the intellectual supermen? The theme is alive today as it has never been before, and yet Ibsen's play fails to make it live on the stage...
There was also Anne de Weese's three-piece "interchangeable," a striped daytime dress on which the top part could be dropped down to the waist to make a long-skirted, flounce-hipped evening dress, or taken off entirely to make a bathing suit. Among the more popular items (according to spectator ballots and a poll of designers present) were dresses and coats with foot-square monograms on the back. Not so popular were nine outfits for men, including a purple suede topcoat with shoes and hatband to match...
Forever Amber (20th Century-Fox) is every bit as good a movie as it was a novel. But it may not be as sensationally popular as Kathleen Winsor's account of a Slut's Progress...